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From: Maxim V FIlimonov <che@bein.link>
To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, mav@freebsd.org
Subject: FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT on ARM: performance and load average
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 22:36:43 +0400
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Hello everyone,

Recently, I encountered a problem with -CURRENT on an ARM board (cubieboard2 
to be precise). The problem was that the load average was above 2. Including 
the fact that the board has 2 CPU cores, that's strange. Also, the network 
throughput was way too slow: from 3 kilobytes per second earlier to 20..50 
about now. 

Here's a workaround for that:
> sysctl kern.eventtimer.periodic=1
With that, the network performance increased while LA decreased to a decent 
0.3..0.5.
-- 
wbr, Maxim Filimonov
che@bein.link